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BAMPFA and City Lights Celebrate Surrealism Centennial with Bay Area Arts and Literature Festival Inside the Magnetic Fields Media Contact: A. J. Fox · (510) 642-0365 · [email protected] BAMPFA and City Lights Celebrate Surrealism Centennial with Bay Area Arts and Literature Festival November 5—20, 2019 Inside the Magnetic Fields: Surrealism @ 100 Features Exhibitions, Film Screenings, Readings, Performances, and More (Berkeley, CA) August 21, 2019—This fall, the UC Berkeley Art Museum and Pacific Film Archive (BAMPFA) and City Lights Booksellers and Publishers are partnering on a major arts and literary festival that celebrates the one hundredth anniversary of Surrealism. Inside the Magnetic Fields: Surrealism @ 100 illuminates the legacy of this transformative movement, which has influenced generations of writers, artists, filmmakers, performers, and scholars across multiple continents. Reflecting Surrealism’s multidisciplinary history, Inside the Magnetic Fields encompasses an expansive program of lectures, panel discussions, film screenings, and performances, as well as two significant art exhibitions at BAMPFA—including the museum’s flagship fall exhibition Strange, an expansive historical survey of global art and film highlighting works that resonate with a surrealist sensibility. Originating in Europe during the early interwar period, Surrealism began as a literary movement focused on exploration of the unconscious mind. Inside the Magnetic Fields takes its name from the English translation of Les Champs magnétiques, a novel co-written by André Breton and Philippe Soupault that was published in 1919 and is generally identified as the first work of literary Surrealism. Breton later went on to author the Surrealist Manifesto, accelerating the cross-disciplinary influence of a creative movement driven by the aesthetic potential of irrational thought and imagery. Inside the Magnetic Fields features more than a dozen readings and panel discussions in multiple locations across San Francisco and Berkeley, highlighting diverse surrealist tendencies from different national and historical origins. The programs place special emphasis on underrepresented elements of the Surrealist movement, including significant representation from artists and authors of the developing world. Notable speakers include Will Alexander, Jacquelynn Baas, Carolyn Burke, James Leo Cahill, Garrett Caples, Gillian Conoley, Andrew Joron, Stuart Kendall, Susan Laxton, Peter Maravelis, Penelope Rosemont, and Jennifer Shaw; several of these participants will deliver remarks at the festival keynote symposium, held at UC Berkeley on Saturday, November 16 and organized by Rob Kaufman, an associate professor in the University’s Comparative Literature department. Other notable highlights include: • Saturday, November 9 – Women in Surrealism: A panel discussion about the understudied contributions of female Surrealist writers and artists • Sunday, November 17 – Beats & Surrealism: A conversation about the creative exchanges between Surrealist authors and San Francisco’s iconic Beat Generation • Wednesday, November 20 – Jacquelyn Baas in Person: A reading at BAMPFA by the museum’s director emeritus Jacquelyn Baas from her new book Marcel Duchamp and the Art of Life, which will also receive a book launch party at City Lights on November 10 A full schedule of live events during Inside the Magnetic Fields follows below and can be found at citylights.com. In conjunction with the Festival, BAMPFA is mounting two major exhibitions of work this fall that evoke the spirit of the Surrealist movement. From August 21 through January 5, the museum’s main gallery is devoted to Strange, a massive survey of over 100 works from BAMPFA’s collection that evoke a sense of irrationality, mysteriousness, and the uncanny. Extending beyond the historical boundaries of Surrealism per se, the exhibition encompasses five hundred years of art from Asia, Europe, and the Americas, including both self-identified Surrealists and artists from other historical moments such as Diane Arbus, William Blake, Louise Bourgeois, Francisco Goya, René Magritte, Maruyama Okyo, Ariel Parkinson, Maija Peeples-Bright, Cindy Sherman, Jack Smith, and Ruth Wall. BAMPFA will present a full slate of lectures, exhibitions, and gallery tours in conjunction with Strange, which are described below and online. Complementing the exhibition, BAMPFA is also mounting a film series, Strange: Surrealist Tendencies in Cinema, which screens concurrently with the live event program of Inside the Magnetic Fields. Reflecting the Festival’s global scope, the series opens with the Filipino Surrealist film Perfumed Nightmare (1977), which imbues an incisive critique of colonialism with magic, humor, and interstellar ambition. Also included in the series are two short film programs: “Still Raining Still Dreaming”, which features surreal experimental films by the celebrated avant-garde directors Joseph Cornell, Phil Solomon, Lawrence Jordan, and Shambhavi Kaul; and “Sidney Peterson’s San Francisco Surrealism”, dedicated to works made by the Bay Area Surrealist filmmaker with his students at the California School of Fine Arts in the 1940s. Surrealism, from classic to contemporary, is also the focus of three programs in BAMPFA’s annual Alternative Visions series earlier in the fall; screening dates and descriptions for both these series follow below and are available online. One of the artists featured in Strange, Sylvia Fein, is also the subject of a focused survey at BAMPFA this fall, as part of the museum’s MATRIX Program for Contemporary Art. On view from November 13 through March 1, Sylvia Fein / MATRIX 275 celebrates the work of the Martinez-based painter, who turns 100 in 2019 and was a leading force in the Wisconsin-based Midwest Surrealist movement of the 1940s. Working primarily in the fourteenth-century medium of egg tempera, Fein’s paintings alternate between symbolic figurative imagery and fantastical images of disembodied eyes or flaming towers, which have been shown alongside work by other Surrealists of her generation such as Frida Kahlo, Leonora Carrington, Dorothea Tanning, and Remedios Varo. Fein’s survey at BAMPFA presents more thirty works made by the artist over a seventy-year period. “We’re delighted to partner with our friends at City Lights Books to reignite the spirit of Surrealism in the Bay Area, a region whose atmosphere of creative innovation and intellectual ferment aligns perfectly with the movement’s founding ideals,” said BAMPFA Director and Chief Curator Lawrence Rinder, who curated Sylvia Fein / MATRIX 275 and co-curated Strange. “As the only museum in the United States that is equally dedicated to art and film, BAMPFA is uniquely equipped to partner with one of San Francisco’s most beloved literary arts institutions to present a celebration of Surrealism across a broad spectrum of creative disciplines.” Individual event descriptions for Inside the Magnetic Fields follow below. Programs are subject to change: for a current list of events, visit citylights.com. Tuesday / 11.5.19 / 7:00 PM The Literary Roots of Surrealism City Lights Booksellers With Will Alexander, Garrett Caples, Norma Cole, Gillian Conoley, David Coulter, Dia Felix, Michael Palmer. A literary sampler of Surrealist texts throughout the decades. Wednesday / 11.6.19 / 7:00 PM Screening: Perfumed Nightmare (Kidlat Tahimik, Philippines, 1977) BAMPFA Perfumed Nightmare “reminds one that invention, insolence, enchantment, even innocence, are still available to film,” Susan Sontag wrote. It merges reverie and documentary as jeepney driver “Kidlat Tahimik” dreams of a trip to the moon. Tahimik’s surreal ethnography finds wonder and mystery both at home in the Philippines and in Europe, where his ambition guides him. Critic Gene Youngblood described Perfumed Nightmare as “a bizarre, hallucinatory movie full of dazzling images and outlandish ideas. It’s both real and surreal, poetic and political, naive and wise, primitive and supremely accomplished . a dazzling testament to the liberty of the imagination.” Thursday / 11.7.19 / 7:00 PM The BEATS & Surrealism: Bob Kaufman & Philip Lamantia City Lights Booksellers Garrett Caples and Will Alexander discuss the connections between the BEATS and Surrealism. City Lights celebrates the release of two new books: The Collected Poems of Bob Kaufman Edited by Neeli Cherkovski, Raymond Foye, and Tate Swindell published by City Lights Books and The Collected Poems of Philip Lamantia Edited by Garrett Caples and Nancy J. Peters Published by University of California Press Friday / 11.8.19 / 7:00 PM Screening: Still Raining Still Dreaming BAMPFA Uncanny landscapes and mysterious journeys emerge in these five works constructed from repurposed materials. Joseph Cornell’s Rose Hobart distills the 1931 B movie East of Borneo into an uncanny twenty-minute ode to the eponymous actress. Phil Solomon’s Last Days in a Lonely Place and Still Raining Still Dreaming take place in the eerie digital landscapes between the action in Grand Theft Auto. In Our Lady of the Sphere Lawrence Jordan animates Victorian engravings to suggest exotic anachronistic journeys. Shambhavi Kaul’s Mount Song traverses depopulated environments from various films, whose constructed landscapes evoke places imagined and remembered. Last Days in a Lonely Place (Phil Solomon, US, 2007) Our Lady of the Sphere (Lawrence Jordan, US, 1969) Mount Song (Shambhavi Kaul, US, 2013) Rose Hobart (Joseph Cornell, US, 1936) Still Raining Still Dreaming (Phil Solomon, US, 2008) Saturday / 11.9.19 / 1:00 PM Surrealist Women Weinstein Gallery, 444 Clementina Street, San Francisco Session
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